If only I could come up with something this good when I was bored.
Formed by three lads from Coventry who had nothing better to do, The Enemy continue their rise to the top of the music world with their latest single, You’re Not Alone.
It follows the massive hits Away From Here and Had Enough, and is a song that combines a catchy passionate anthem with a deep-rooted political message, born straight out of Cov.
With a number one album, We’ll Live And Die In These Towns, already under their belts, The Enemy can claim to be one of the best newcomers of 2007. They’ve burst onto the scene with a confidence and swagger that has drawn comparisons with some of the shining lights in British music, including the mighty Oasis and even in some reviews, The Beatles.
You’re Not Alone is a ferocious rant in which singer Tom Clarke brings together the anger and passion felt by people in his hometown after the closure of the Peugeot car factory:
“You live in an incestuous world / Where your conscience holds no weight / You sold us down the river like rats / Then you drowned and beat the brave”.
The music is simple in it’s structure; verse, chant, verse, chant etc, but despite that the passion in the music pulls you along by the scruff: “You’re not alone you know / You’re not alone at aaaaall”, becomes a terrace anthem just like the tracks that The Enemy have produced before.
The band’s true test will come when they get round to delivering the follow up to their debut album, but for now we should enjoy their music, which for the moment, is unmatched.